I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
air terminal
Terminal 5
terminal (= causing death eventually, and not possible to cure )
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At that point the illness was thought to be terminal.
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■ NOUN
cancer
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This rich, high-caste woman had had terminal cancer .
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The novelist Ann Lamott tells a story about going shopping with a friend who was in the late stages of terminal cancer .
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Discussion Our results suggest that oxygen supplementation decreased the intensity of dyspnoea in patients with terminal cancer .
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In a study of terminal cancer patients, the positive response was even higher.
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However, in patients with terminal cancer the normal cause of dyspnoea is restrictive pulmonary failure.
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For the last week he's been in a hospice with terminal cancer .
decline
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Mrs Holloway says that she's sad that a once great industry now seems to be in terminal decline .
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Beyond electoral matters, there was growing belief that, for long-term sociological and historical reasons, Labour was in terminal decline .
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Those are not the statistics of an industry in terminal decline .
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But it does happen, and I venture to suggest should happen wherever there is apparently terminal decline .
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This is more than can be said for the ever-decreasing Daily Mirror and Daily Express, both in terminal decline .
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That third-world economy with a super-power arsenal could be in terminal decline .
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After appearing to be in terminal decline the monarchy is back in business.
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It is important to emphasise that older people should not be regarded enmasse as ill, frail or in terminal decline .
illness
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Charles took on Diana's mantle speaking on terminal illness , while she prepared to tread the world stage.
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Her terrible, inexplicable terminal illness .
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How would you feel, say, if you had an incurable disease, or a terminal illness ?
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Being somewhat overweight is not a serious health problem, and obesity is not a terminal illness .
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Ideally, some one with a terminal illness should at least have the right to work part-time as long as they are able.
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We feel like a patient with a possible terminal illness that no one will tell the results of the tests.
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At present, patients are prevented from receiving the benefit for the first six months of a terminal illness .
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Patient E16 had only been in hospital once, three years before his terminal illness .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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terminal buds
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Is the disease terminal ?
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Many of the patients are in the terminal stages of the disease.
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She was recently told she has terminal cancer.
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St Helen's Hospice cares for people with terminal illnesses.
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Two years ago, his mother developed terminal cancer.
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Fremont Elementary was old and soiled, waiting for terminal erosion like the bits of tire debris that trucks leave on freeways.
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Ideally, some one with a terminal illness should at least have the right to work part-time as long as they are able.
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Networks that exhibit the same terminal behaviour as some device, system or more complicated network are naturally known as equivalent circuits.
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One of these, designated B9, was expressed sparsely in terminal placenta and with varying levels in most other tissues.
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Other proposals concern the carry-back of unrelieved charges on income, and the carry-forward of terminal losses against income by individuals.
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Stopping it or even pausing it would have caused terminal embarrassment for everyone involved.
II. noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
international
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During that time, passengers will have to cross to a new international terminal at Waterloo.
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Most of the route will be elevated, with two stations serving the international and domestic terminals .
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As posters go up in hotel lobbies and banners are hung in the international airport terminals , crowds are a foregone conclusion.
negative
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Polarity Each battery has a positive and negative terminal .
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Under no circumstances make the connection to the negative battery terminal !
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The negative terminal is called the cathode and the positive is the anode.
positive
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Operation of the dot key earthed the battery positive terminal , putting a negative potential on the signalling capacitor.
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Polarity Each battery has a positive and negative terminal .
■ NOUN
air
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Harmondsworth detention centre is in an arid wasteland of motorways and outposts of the air terminals past Heathrow airport.
airport
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I also have to make sure when the passengers come into the airport terminal they are entering a clean, well-presented environment.
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In exactly thirty-five minutes, I want you to leave and go to the airport terminal .
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Laura's normally sparkling blue eyes were cloudy and dull as their car approached the airport terminal .
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A second airport terminal was opened in 1990 and there are plans to reclaim more land for a third and a fourth.
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As posters go up in hotel lobbies and banners are hung in the international airport terminals , crowds are a foregone conclusion.
bus
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Hotel St Raphael A superior first-class hotel close to the airport bus terminal .
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After she had rolled the empty barrels back into the garage, she went inside and called the bus terminal .
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The east shore of the bay had no airport landing strip, no railhead, no long-distance bus terminal .
computer
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Girls now sat at the computer terminals , tapping intermittently with glum looks on their faces.
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In the 19905, I believe that about half of the work force will use computer terminals each day.
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He stared in disgust at his computer terminal , praying for enlightenment which refused to come.
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I kept a computer terminal in my office.
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Calls can be made, answered and transferred directly from the computer terminal .
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The wires provided the power for the computer terminals and telephones of the bond trading room.
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The new system uses bulky counter-top computer terminals , installed in a selection of shops, to monitor record sales.
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In the works is an Internet Cafe for the restaurant where computer terminals would link members to the Internet and e-mail.
ferry
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The other £3 million was spent on the three ferry terminals .
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Courtesy coaches run between Dunkirk's ferry terminal , town centre and hypermarket.
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To date £6.7 million has been spent on two incomplete ferry terminals at Gills Bay and Burwick.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A free shuttle bus runs between the airport terminal and the train station.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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AlterNet service also sells a full range of equipment used for the Internet connections: modems, routers, and terminal servers.
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But one terminal , in what Jurkowsky called an oversight, was not purged.
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His name has appeared on billboards, television and radio stations, computer terminals and a Johns Hopkins research building.
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Jessamyn left the dead woman with her face in her terminal , and climbed on to the top of the command module.
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Many antidepressants just slow down the reuptake of the neurotransmitter into the presynaptic terminal .
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Without the King's Cross terminal , there may be real problems.
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Workers who once did strenuous manual labour picking wood for the grinders now sit at computer terminals.